China Live is developing a large-scale Asian culinary hub in the South Bay area.

Eight years after chef George Chen opened his massive food emporium China Live in San Francisco’s Chinatown, he’s expanding the popular brand. This fall, Chen and partner Cindy Wong-Chen will open Asia Live at Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara, a multi-purpose space that will highlight not just food from Greater China, but also Southeast Asia, India, Korea, and Japan. The ambitious project will be a mix of restaurant, cafe, bar, lounge, and retail offerings, spread across two stories and a rooftop.

Asia Live will take over the 12,000-square-foot space left behind by the closing of the lavish restaurant iChina, which shut down in September. It’s the first in a series of expansions that the Chens are working on; George Chen told Eater SF that deals are in the works for a New York location and an Asia Live space in Paris’s Carrousel du Louvre, the mall area below the famous Louvre Museum. “I’ve seen too many people expand too quickly, and that’s why we waited so long to do it,” Chen says. “I think [Asia Live] being in proximity to the Bay Area, I c